Edward Vansittart Neale

Edward Vansittart Neale, BA, MA (2 April 1810  – 16 September 1892), was an English barrister, co-operator and Christian Socialist.

Neale was born in Bath, one of the eight children of The Rev. Edward Vansittart Neale (formerly Vansittart), Rector of Taplow in Buckinghamshire, and wife, whom he married in 1809, Anne Spooner (1780 - 1873), herself one of the ten children of Isaac Spooner, a wealthy Birmingham businessman, and his wife, whom he married in 1770, Barbara Gough, later Gough-Calthorpe (c. 1745 – 1826), daughter of Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, by second wife Barbara Calthorpe, and sister of Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe. One of his sisters, Charlotte Vansittart Neale (1817 - 1881), married in 1841 Charles Frere, a barrister and parliamentary clerk, by whom she had nine children, one of which, Charlotte Vansittart Frere (1846 - 1916), married in 1882 artist and writer A. G. Folliott-Stokes of St Ives, author of several important books on Cornwall, and had issue.

In 1828, after receiving early education at home, he entered Oriel College Oxford where he was tutored by J. H. Newman. In 1837 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He was a nephew of William Wilberforce's wife, Barbara Spooner Wilberforce.

He became a Christian Socialist in 1850, and joined the council of the Society for Promoting Working Men's Associations.

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